Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Life’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Life, People, Technology, Wi-Fi

I will be attending the annual BlogHer 2008 conference at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco from July 18-19th, 2008. This year the conference organizers are also hosting a pre-launch mixer for first timers and I hope to make it the mixer since this is my first time attending BlogHer.
The conference appears to be a […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: India, Life, Living In America

Gas prices are a good conversation starter here in the San Francisco Bay area. Every time I pull into a gas station I end up talking to a couple of people about the spiraling gas price. One lady said she paid almost $80 to fill up her SUV and that she has stopped using premium […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, Living In America, San Francisco

Kartar Dhillon passed away earlier this month in Berkeley, California and she “Ain’t No Old Lady,” as Ranbir Sidhu writes. She was 93 years old.
Kartar or Kar as she was called was an activist and a writer, who was a fount of information about the early Punjabi settlers in California. She was somebody I wanted […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Life, Living In America, San Francisco, Social Media, Video, YouTube Videos

It is hard to believe that my two weeks of break just flew by so quickly. I learned quite a bit during my break and discovered the power of meeting and reconnecting with old and new friends. I finally found time to meet many old friends, make new friends and also discovered that the […]



By Kamla Bhatt • May 24th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Ideas, Life, YouTube Videos

“How many brain scientists can study their brain from inside out?” asks Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor, also known as the “Singing Scientist.” In this video clip (via TED) she shares her story and what she learned from her experience. She is in an unique position of having suffered a massive brain stroke at the […]



By Kamla Bhatt • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Ideas, Life, Technology, YouTube Videos

He has been called a dying hero. As Time magazine put it, “Randy Pausch is dying. But in the process, he’s teaching millions of people about living. Some colleges have adopted the idea of a “last lecture” to teach students life lessons that aren’t necessarily included on a syllabus.”
Meet Prof. Randy Pausch, computer science […]